The Double the Donation Story

It’s our goal to help organizations generate the funding that’s necessary to focus on their core missions of education, community enrichment, scientific research, or charitable giving.

The Beginning of Our Journey

Double the Donation was founded when Adam, Double the Donation’s President, was working at a major bank and made donations to his university, the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, and LLS.

By the time he realized his company had a matching gift program, it was too late to get many of those donations matched.

Discussions with multiple nonprofits revealed they all viewed matching gifts as bonus money. Double the Donation was started to help organizations proactively grow their matching gift revenue and focus more of their resources on their core mission.

Kanwei has been programming since he was 4, starting with creating text adventure games on his father’s office computer. He now holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Emory University, and resides in Atlanta.

He joined Double the Donation in 2013 after meeting Adam quite fortuitously. He is passionate about developing software to solve everyday problems, and especially likes functional programming.